She complains that Congress has done nothing to implement more gun control measures such as banning large magazines, automatic weapons, (already illegal since the 1930's) and requiring more extensive background checks.

Against this backdrop she cites the Navy Yard shooter.

Except that the shotgun he used held only five shells, and he had already passed a much more rigorous background check to work in that Navy Yard than any firearm check would provide.

Heck, he even used a gun championed by Joe Biden.

And what I find entertaining is that on page A11 of that same newspaper, there is an article about how mass shootings have actually decreased in the 2000s.

The year most dangerous for mass shootings was 1929, during the peak of prohibition.

FBI statistics show that murder has declined every year but one since 1992, and hit the lowest in 2012.

This in the face of more guns, over 300 million, in the United States, than at any other time in history.

Ms. DiGennaro closes with the statement that other countries that have enacted gun control demonstrates that gun control works.

Obviously she has not researched the fact that felonious crime has skyrocketed in the UK since an all out ban on small arms in the late 1990's, and the fact that Australia is not far behind in violent crime having enacted their own ban in the early 2000s.